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Successful cluster administration can be very difficult without a real-time view of the state of the cluster. Solr itself does not provide aggregated views about its state or any historical usage data, which is necessary to understand how the service is used and how it is performing. Knowing the throughput and capacities not only helps detect errors and troubleshoot issues, but is also useful for capacity planning.

Learn how to use OCR tools, Apache Spark, and other Apache Hadoop components to process PDF images at scale.

Optical character recognition (OCR) technologies have advanced significantly over the last 20 years. However, during that time, there has been little or no effort to marry OCR with distributed architectures such as Apache Hadoop to process large numbers of images in near-real time.

In this post, you will learn how to use standard open source tools along with Hadoop components such as Apache Spark,

Bet you didn’t know this: In some cases, Solr offers lightning-fast response times for business-style queries.

If you were to ask well informed technical people about use cases for Solr, the most likely response would be that Solr (in combination with Apache Lucene) is an open source text search engine: one can use Solr to index documents, and after indexing, these same documents can be easily searched using free-form queries in much the same way as you would query Google.

To design effective fraud-detection architecture, look no further than the human brain (with some help from Spark Streaming and Apache Kafka).

At its core, fraud detection is about detection whether people are behaving “as they should,” otherwise known as catching anomalies in a stream of events. This goal is reflected in diverse applications such as detecting credit-card fraud, flagging patients who are doctor shopping to obtain a supply of prescription drugs,